Hat-pin protector.



-G. W. BURNETT.

HAT PIN PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. e, 1911.

Patenfied Oct. 10, 1911.

am Dumb UNITED STATES PATENT oruuon.

GEORGE W. BURNETT, OF WEST CLIFFE, COLORADO.

HAT-PIN PROTECTOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BURNETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at West Clifie, in the county of Custer and State of Colorado,have invented a new and useful Hat-Pin Protector; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description oftheinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains-to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new and use ful guard or protector for thepoint of a ladys hat-pin, scarf pins and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide means in the form of aprotector to prevent the accidental displacement of the hat-pin from thehat.

A further object is to construct the protector or guard similar to thehead of the pin, and provide the same with an ornamental design similarto the design of the head, so as to render the distinction between thetwo hardly discernible.

It will be observed that by this protector, the point of the pin will beprevented from sticking persons to the rear or laterally of the personhaving such a pin in the hat.

A further object of the invention is to provide the protector with meansfor holdmg the same to the pin, and to the protector in its properposition.

' The invention comprlses further features and combinations of partshereinafter set forth,shown in-the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a view showing the application of theprotector to a hat pin. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view through theprotector, showing the hat pin arranged in position. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail viewin elevation of a portion of the pinshank 2.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the head of a hat-pin, which isprovided with an ornamental design, as shown. 2'denotes the pin shankhaving the usual pointed end 3. A slight distance from the extreme pointof the pin, an annular groove 4 is rovided. This pin shank receives theguar or protector 5, which is ornamented, to correspond with theornamentation of the head of the pin. This guard or protector is hol-Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 6, 1911.

Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

Serial No. 612,565.

low and formed from thin'sheet metal. Integral with the protector orguard and mergmg from the periphery 6 of the mouth thereof areoppositely arranged springnular groove, however of the pin point engagesbeyond the spring members or clamps, so as to prevent accidentaldisplacement of the guard or protector.

Connected to the protector, as at 9, is one end of a chain 10, the otherend of which is provided with an ornamented safety pin 11, which isfastened at any suitable location on the wearers'hat. However, whenconnecting the safety pin to "the hat, there should be but very littleslack allowed in the chain. In other words, the chain should be drawnalmost taut, thus constituting means for preventing the p'rotectororguard from being accidentally removed or isplaced from the pin point, incase the-same works almost to the extreme point. The protector head orguard has a filler of cork, rubber or the like 12 arranged upon itsinterior, to "receive the point of the pin shank, in order to preventthe point of the pin from becoming blunted.

The invention having been set forth, what I is claimed as new and usefulis As an article of manufacture, a'pin comprising a pin shank having anannular groove adjacent its point, a hollow protector having a centraland two side enlargements and provided with an entrance mouth, saidprotector head having spring clamps integrally connected therewith atone end and arranged opposite to one another and returned into thehollow portion of the protector head, and having their free endsarranged .slidably against the interior wall of the protector, saidspring clamps having oppositely arranged longitudinal grooves adapted toreceive the point of the shank, the annular groove of the pin pointconstituting means to assist the protector head In testimony whereof Ihave signed my from being accidentally displaced from the name to thisspecification in the presence of point of the shank a filler of corkarranged tWo subscribing Witnesses. in the central hollow enlargement,said en- GEORGE W. BURNETT.

5 largement being in line with the passage between the clamps, thusproviding means to preserve the condition of the pinpoint.

Witnesses:

JOHN H.- LEARY, EDWARD L. MOLT.

Copies ofthis pate nt may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner 0'! Patents,

Washington, I). C.

